The beginning
3. November 2024 in Schweden ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
We are going to Japan! But first a long flight to china.
Copenhagen Airport
3. November 2024 in Dänemark ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
Bejing Airport
4. November 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
First a 9 hour flight to china, then japan. I got maybe 30 min of proper sleep. Gonna be rough, since it’s midday when we land :(
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First night in Japan
4. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Apparently our airbnb is outside of shinsekai (the new world) food and entertainment area.
Wie cool, sieht echt aus wie eine fremde Welt;) ich wünsche Euch weiterhin viel Vergnügen und spannende (sichere) Abenteuer! Norbert war so lieb mich an Eurer Reise teilhaben zu lassen, macht Spaß zu verfolgen, liebe Grüße Susanne [Susanne]
Osaka Casle + City exploration
5. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Osaka at night
5. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Me and Erik went on a night walk.
Kobe
6. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Today we visited Kobe, a city known for its steak. We also climbed a mountain to find a hidden playground, a shrine and lookout point.
Akashi Casle
7. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Casle grunds but without the casle, only the ruins remain. Still a pretty park with some traditional guard towers.
Himeji
7. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We visited himeji and himeji casle. We also tried oden, a soup with leftover ingredients, known as a himeji classic.
Universal Studios
8. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Today we went to the Universal Studio theme park in Osaka. Sadly the nintendo world tickes where already gone before we even arrived, but we still had a good time!
Jazz bar / Night walk
8. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
After universal, william joined us and we went to a jazz bar. We acidentally found the Osaka ”light resonance” street lightning.
Hiroshima
9. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
William and I went off to a two day trip to Hiroshima and Onomichi. First day we visited Hiroshima Casle and it’s park and nearby temple, then we visited the atomic bomb piece museum and pieceWeiterlesen
Shimanami kaido
10. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
After sleeping in Onomichi, we took a bike trip through the very scenic shimanami kaido, (moutain-river sea-way). It’s a 76 km bikepath through 7ish islands and huge bridges between them.
Nara - City of Deer
11. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
We visited Nara, the city of deer! The over thousand deer walk freely in the park and are frendly, and will bow their head to ask for food. We also visited the great budda hall and a rural shrine.
Last minute shopping
11. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
It’s our last night in Osaka so it’s time for some last minute shopping. And why not eat some conveyer belt sushi while we’re at it! (It’s very cheap!!)
Kyoto Fox Shrine
12. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
First day in Kyoto. Of course we immediately went to the biggest fox shrine in Japan, and the home of “the thousand gates”.
Kyoto day two
13. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Another packed day with a bunch of temples, shrines, and even a tea ceremony. We also found a super rare rabbit shrine, which is fun due to my zodiak.
Uji - City of tea
14. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Today we visited Uji, the tea district in kyoto. Famous for matcha and the tempel that’s on every 10 and 10000 yen coin/bill.
Minoh Park
15. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Today we checked out minoh park, or minoo park, for it’s waterfall and nice trails. Not only was the waterfall nice, but we also found some abandonded trails deep in the woods!
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Bamboo Forest
16. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We visited the bamboo forest but it was quite crowded (it’s a Saturday), then two more temples nearby, the dragon temple and the gold temple.
Okazaki Station
17. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
On our trip to Korankei a few days back we got stuck in Okazaki for an hour due to cancelled busses. But the little part we saw was quite pretty!
Korankei Maple Festival
17. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Today we to reached Korankei, literally translated as insence-storm-vally, to visit their maple festival. But due to it’s popularity all busses seemed to be cancelled, and the only way to know wasWeiterlesen
Nagoya Casle
18. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
After leaving Korankei, we are off to Kanazawa! But first we once again pass through Nagoya and this time took some time to check out Nagoya Casle.
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Kanazawa
19. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
We took a buss north (3.5 hours) and now it’s cold! Around 5 degrees in the mornings, and 10 degrees less than in kyoto. But we found yet another casle and a beatiful garden!
Onsen + Sushi
20. November 2024 in Japan ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Today we visited a traditional Japanese bathhouse at the edge of Nanto, with a natural hot-spring and both inside and outside pools. Nude and gender separated with sitting showers! After we missed aWeiterlesen